Re: [PATCH v10 5/7] arm: add basic support for Mediatek MT6589 boards

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

On 07/18/2014 12:47 PM, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Am Freitag, 18. Juli 2014, 11:46:51 schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
>> On 07/07/2014 05:13 PM, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>> This adds a generic devicetree board file and a dtsi for boards
>>> based on MT6589 SoCs from Mediatek.
>>>
>>> Apart from the generic parts (gic, clocks) the only component
>>> currently supported are the timers.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
>>> --
>>
>> I will take this patchset through my tree but this patch touches an area
>> I am not handling.
>>
>> Olof, Arnd, do you mind to ack this patch ?
>
> wouldn't it be easier to just take patches 1,2,3,4 through your tree and let
> patches 5,6,7 go through arm-soc?
>
> There is no compile-time dependency between the two parts, so they will come
> together nicely in linux-next and during the merge-window.
>
>
> Also in [0] Olof wrote:
>
> ----------
> Traditionally we usually take the DT changes through arm-soc, but as
> long as we share the branch we might be ok. We tend to stick them in
> different branches in our tree though, so rockchip will be a little
> mis-sorted this release. Not a big deal, and we can deal with it.
> -----------
>
> So I'd assume splitting the patchset this way might be a nice solution?
>
>
> Heiko
>
>
> [0] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg347053.html

Indeed.

Olof, Arnd ? Will you take the patches 5-6-7 ?



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